Not yet, but we've been keeping him quiet so he doesn't injure it ... but if he was running around like normal, it's possible that we'd see some oddness in how he's getting around.

Apparently, when they do this, they cut it back to the bone ... which I didn't know. I guess that's whey they called it an amputation. When they explained it to me, I thought they were actually removing part of his TOE to the bone, but it's just the nail and the quick and some attached tissue. Gross. I'll be really curious to hear whether the pathology report shows anything ...

Poor Button! Roscoe breaks his nails a lot, but we haven't had to resort to that yet, although one did get infected once. He's got lousy nails. I hope it heals fast for him, I bet he'd like to get back to running around.

if it was just a break, i probably would have tried to cut it and let it heal myself, but somehow, he managed to mash it all up ... basically, what he had on his toe was a lump of mushed up, shredded, bloody quick with some ragged nail fragments ... it was gross. i brought him in, and they thought they were just going to be doing some first aid and cleanup, and when they looked, they were like ... "Oh ... that's not good." Poor pony. He's doing OK, though. He's healing up nicely, so no more bandage and in a couple of days, he can resume normal activity.

I have not noticed a single problem with Sneaky's nail being removed, as far as balance, or anything else. She might have less gripping surface when she pulls but we have not competed or worked on WP since her problem, which was a rather uncommon fungal infection. Her nail was completely removed in November last year, when they did the biopsy, and the vet who did the procedure did a pretty good job.

It seems that some of Button's nail is still there so it should re grow. Tux did a number on one of his nails in November 2010, which is now fully grown:

and another on a toenail in the back, a couple of months ago, and it is growing back:

Thanks for the photos, Val. Glad to see Tux's nails are coming back ... I'm thinking Button's probably will, too. They said it should. He's pretty dinged up and missing some parts already (including some brain cells), so even if it didn't grow back,it'd just be another thing to add to the list!

The nail on Pirate's dewclaw was completely gone, and it grew back normally. The vet told me the options were a) it might grow back normal. b) grow back funky, but not be a problem; or c) grow back funky, and cause pain, so it would have to be removed. Pirate went for option a.

Otis split his nail two weeks ago. Poor boy was in agony. The vet cut it back, looks like Button's. I had no idea this could cause so much pain - he cried all night after the procedure. Lots of pampering and pain meds.

and here we go again. rob has him at the vet for yet another totally freaking split nail, all the way to the quick, bloody and torn. happened last night. the vet says it's so bad they can't really fix it without cutting the damn thing off. and i'm headed out of town for work tomorrow and the dogs are supposed to be with a dogsitter. this SUCKS.

WTF is up with my dogs lately? doc's freaking out about ghosts or something, tucker just got over a major illness and button's toes are falling apart.

I haven't read the problems with Doc thread (lately) but do you think it might be the weather for him? We are in hurricane season...even if we're not getting them we're still getting a lot rain and wind. Would a thundershirt work? We've been using one on Bailey. At first I couldn't notice a difference but this last time we used it she calmed down pretty quickly.